Charity and Voluntary Sector
CO: Research from the Behavioural Insights Team, or Nudge Unit, shows how charity donations can be increased by using behavioural sciences. As well as setting out key insights from the academic literature, the paper reveals the results from 5 randomised controlled trials conducted with a range of large organisations that show how charitable donations have been increased in practice.
BIG: The London velodrome where Sir Bradley Wiggins started competitive racing is set to host an altogether different cycling event – a theatre performance featuring visually impaired dancers aiming to raise awareness of disability cycling & the safety issues.
Wheels for Wellbeing are partnering up with the Bicycle Ballet dance company and will use a grant of £10,000 from the Big Lottery Fund’s Awards for All programme to put on a work-in-progress performance of ‘Everyday Hero’ at the Herne Hill Velodrome, south east London.
An advance preview will take place on Saturday 6 June 2013 to coincide with the launch of the velodrome’s new track facilities. The finished production will then go on the road over the summer as people across the country dust of their bikes to make the most of the brief British sunshine. The project is just one of 133 projects in London sharing £1,181,289 in the latest round of Awards for All grants.
AUK: Charities Age UK and Grandparents Plus have launched new analysis revealing the informal childcare provided by grandparents is now worth £7.3bn a year, up from £3.9bn in 2004. The research showed that 1 in 4 working families depends on grandparents for childcare, and that half of all mothers rely on grandparents to provide childcare when they return to work after maternity leave.
'Research shows that grandparents providing childcare tend to be grandmothers who are younger, fitter and healthier, but no longer working. They are the very women who are being expected to remain longer in work to pay for healthcare and pensions in older age. The risk is of an emerging childcare gap, as grandmothers stay in paid work and are no longer available to provide care, with mothers leaving the labour market as a result.
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